< Lamentations 5 >

1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
4 We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
10 Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
13 The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
18 for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
19 You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
21 Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
22 But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.
But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.

< Lamentations 5 >